Tool for filling upholstery pockets



1,560,773 DEL ROY F. FOWLER v TOOL FOR FILLING UPHOLSTERY PocKETs Nov.10 1925' Filed April 28, 1925 Patented Nov. 10, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

DEL ROY F. FOWLER, OF MELROSE PARK, PENNSYLVANIA.

TOOL FOR FILLING UPHOLSTERY POCKETS.

Application filed April 22, 1925. serial No. 26,394.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DEL RoY F. FOWLER, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and resident of Melrose Park, county of Montgomery, State ofPennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inTools for Filling Upholstery Pockets, of which the following is a trueand exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,which form a part thereof.

My inventionrelates to the construction of tools by means of which a hatof filling material such as cotton is inserted in pockets or pleats in,for instance, automobile upholstery.

The object of my invention is to providea tool through which the bat canpass freely, by means of which the bat can be tightly grippedparticularly at the front end of the tool and which tool can be openedout.

to give access to the bat lying within it.

The nature of my invention will be best understoodas described inconnection with the drawings which illustrate a tool having myimprovements and in which Figure 1 is a plan view of my tool. Figure 2,.a lan in central horizontal sec tion showing t e bat in place. I

Figure '3 is a cross section on line 33 of Fig. 1. i

Figure 4, a cross section on line 44 of Fig 1.

igure 5 is a plan View showing the trough members spread apart.

Figure 6 is a perspective view showing;

the tool in use, and

I Figure 7 is a vertical longitudinal section showing a modification.

A, A is the tubular base of the tool, that part A having a funnel shapeand the part A having an elliptical section with parallel walls. B and B.are metal tongues fastened. to the bottom and top of the A section ofthe base and extending, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 5, for the fulllength of the tool. By preference, the lateral sides of the tonguesangle to each other, as indicated at b b Fig. 3. C, C, are trough shapedsections of the tool, the edges of which preferably an le towards eachother, as indicated at C, Fig. 3. The sections C, C, are pivotallyattached to the base section A as by rivetsD, D, and so as to turn,freely from, for instance, such a position as is Fig. 7, the uppertongue B only extends to 1 the point B The trough shaped sections C, C,are so shaped and so pivotally attached to the tubular base that they donot-in use overlap each other and form a complete container forthe bat,but they do overlap the edges of the top and bottom tongues B, B, andpreferably in such manner that the angling edges 0 of the sections Ccontact with the edges 6 of the tongues at the outer end of the tool soas to press the tongues B, B, inward against the bat when the troughsections are moved together. Y J

E indicates the hat of filling material. E the end of the bat projectingbeyond the end of the tool. F is the upholstery container formed intoleats or pockets F, F.

In operation theliat E is introduced into the tool so that an end E willextend'for a short distance beyond it and as shown in charged is lnsertein a pocket F and forced back to the'end thereof so that the end E ofthe bat is compacted against the end of the pocket. The operator thenvrelaxes his grip on the sections C, C, and after gras mg the free end Eof the bat through t e end of-the pocket F he withdraws the tool leavingthe bat in the pocket and at the same time recharging the tool with afresh portion of the bat. The bat is, of course, severed so as to leavea charge in'the pocket and a projecting end E on the new charge of thetool.

The modified tool' of Fig. '7, in which the tongue B does not extend tothe end ofthe tool, does not beyond the endB com letely enclose the batand in the case of this tool the top portion E of the bat will, when thecharged tool is inserted in a pocketand the grip on its members isrelaxed, bulge up against the fabric of the pocket and by frictiontherewithvassist in holding the bat in drawn. I v 4 7 Having nowdescribed my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure- ,byLetters Patent, is:

1. A tool for filling upholstery pockets comprising a tubular base,non-overlapping trough shaped sections pivotally attached to said baseat one end so as to swing towards or away from each other and: tonguesections attached to the base and extending below and between the edgesof the trough shaped sections to form with said trough shaped sectionsan enclosure for the bat of stuffing material when the trough shapedsections are moved together.

2. A tool having the features of claim 1, further characterized byhaving the ends of the trough shaped sections and at least one of thetongue sections located at the same distance from the base and adaptedto form smooth gripping edges at the end of the tool.

DEL ROY F. FOVLER.

